H. C. Venugopal

H. C. Venugopal
H. C. Venugopal
	Venugopal (left), Vijay Raghavendra (right), IFFI (2006)
Born	Doddaballapura Taluk, Bengaluru, India
Other names	H. C. Venu
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1996 - Present
Television	Raja Rani
Spouse	Tara

H. C. Venugopal is an Indian cinematographer, who has worked in the Kannada and Tamil film industries.

Career

H. C. Venugopal is a cinematographer who has predominantly worked for Kannada films. He has been active since the late 1990s, regularly collaborating for high-profile Kannada films including A (1998), Sparsha (1999), H2O (2002), Aa Dinagalu (2007), Jaggu Dada (2016) to name a few.^[1] He was also involved in the shoot of the first 3D Kannada film Katari Veera Surasundarangi (2012) .^[2]

In recent years, he has collaborated with Arjun Sarja for the bilingual films, Jaihind 2 (2014) and Prema Baraha (2018).^[3]^[4]

Personal life

Venugopal married actress-politician Tara in 2005. They have a son named Shreekrishna (b. 2013) together.^[5]

Selected filmography

All films are in Kannada, unless mentioned otherwise.

Key
†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Notes
1998	A	Debut
1999	Sparsha
1999	Prathyartha
2002	Dhumm
	Marma
	H2O	Bilingual in Kannada and Tamil
	Parva
2005	Maharaja
2006	Kallarali Hoovagi
2006	Neenello Naanalle
2007	Aa Dinagalu
Ugadi
2008	Anthu Inthu Preethi Banthu
2009	Birugaali
2010	Modalasala
2010	Suryakaanti
2011	Rajadhani
2012	Chingari
2012	Katari Veera Surasundarangi
2013	Nam Duniya Nam Style
2014	Jaihind 2 Abhimanyu	Bilingual in Tamil and Kannada
2014	Dil Rangeela
2015	RX Soori
2016	Jaggu Dada
	Mummy
	Nagarahavu
2018	Prema Baraha Solli Vidava	Bilingual in Kannada and Tamil
2020	Shivarjuna
2023	Kaasina Sara
2024	UI

References

^ "Sandalwood Cinematographer H C Venu Biography, News, Photos, Videos".
^ "It was Panasonic for 'KVSS' - HC Venu - Tamil News". 18 May 2012.
^ "'Prema Baraha' audio launched, film marks Aishwarya Arjun's Kannada debut". 23 December 2017.
^ "Jaihind 2 (Aka) Jaihind 2 review".
^ "Tara delivers a baby boy at 48!". The Times of India. 2 February 2013. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013.

External links

H. C. Venugopal at IMDb

[1] "Sandalwood Cinematographer H C Venu Biography, News, Photos, Videos".

[2] "It was Panasonic for 'KVSS' - HC Venu - Tamil News". 18 May 2012.

[3] "'Prema Baraha' audio launched, film marks Aishwarya Arjun's Kannada debut". 23 December 2017.

[4] "Jaihind 2 (Aka) Jaihind 2 review".

[toi1-5] "Tara delivers a baby boy at 48!". The Times of India. 2 February 2013. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013.

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